Vigen Guroian: Fairy Tales, Classical Learning, and The Moral Imagination
The Moral Imagination
The Relationship of Pinocchio to His Father
In Capetto, Pinocchio doesn't just himself, but he saves his father, right? And then he says to his father, his father is despairing of everscaping. But in that proper relationship, there's the father to develops. I think by virtue of his own suffering and near death in the belly of the shark, we call it a whale, he comes to some understanding of what the needs of his son really are. In any case, at least we'll have the great consolation of dying glass together.
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